11 Feb '12 02:33>
Originally posted by Rajk999You mean Hitler the good little catholic boy...
Should the world have allowed Hitler to overrun Europe without declaring war on him ?
If you argue that the bible is the arbiter of all that is moral and gives detailed instructions for how
Christians should behave then it wouldn't matter how evil Hitler was...
If the bible says that you shouldn't kill or go to war, then that's that, you shouldn't do it...
(according to your religion)
So it doesn't matter how bad Hitler was, your argument for what 'Christians' should do if you believe
in biblical Christianity stands or falls on what the bible says.
If you Don't believe in the bible as the absolute arbiter and thus employ secular moral reasoning...
(which anyone not stoning adulterers and burning witches is already doing even if they don't realise it)
Then it does matter how evil Hitler is... But I don't understand how you can claim any grounds for being a
Christian as you are now basically making up your own morality and not relying on the commandments in
the bible.
Now I am all for this of course... But if it's relevant how evil Hitler was to whether or not you think it was right
to fight him regardless of what it says in the bible then you are basically admitting that the bible is not your
ultimate source of morality.
Which is true, because if it was you would be going round killing lots of people for committing various 'crimes'
we no-longer recognise... like being gay, or sleeping with someone out of wedlock, or being an atheist...
You have a (mostly) secular morality, you just don't know it.